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Haunebu: the Secret Files: the Greatest UFO Secret of All Time HAUNEBU: THE SECRET FILES The Greatest UFO Secret of All Time David Hatcher Childress Adventures Unlimited Press Other Books by David Hatcher Childress: VIMANA ARK OF GOD ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY IN PERU & BOLIVIA THE MYSTERY OF THE OLMECS PIRATES AND THE LOST TEMPLAR FLEET TECHNOLOGY OF THE GODS A HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO ARMAGEDDON LOST CONTINENTS & THE HOLLOW EARTH ATLANTIS & THE POWER SYSTEM OF THE GODS THE FANTASTIC INVENTIONS OF NIKOLA TESLA LOST CITIES OF NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA LOST CITIES OF CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA & INDIA LOST CITIES & ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF AFRICA & ARABIA LOST CITIES & ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF SOUTH AMERICA LOST CITIES OF ANCIENT LEMURIA & THE PACIFIC LOST CITIES OF ATLANTIS, ANCIENT EUROPE & THE MEDITERRANEAN LOST CITIES & ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF THE SOUTHWEST YETIS, SASQUATCH AND HAIRY GIANTS With Brien Foerster THE ENIGMA OF CRANIAL DEFORMATION With Steven Mehler THE CRYSTAL SKULLS HAUNEBU: THE SECRET FILES The Greatest UFO Secret of All Time Adventures Unlimited Press Haunebu: The Secret Files Copyright © 2021 by David Hatcher Childress ISBN 978-1-948803-31-1 All Rights Reserved Published by: Adventures Unlimited Press One Adventure Place Kempton, Illinois 60946 USA [email protected] Cover by Terry Lamb AdventuresUnlimitedPress.com 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Plans for the Haunebu II. An early design for the Haunebu. HAUNEBU: THE SECRET FILES The Greatest UFO Secret of All Time David Hatcher Childress Adventures Unlimited Press Plans for the Haunebu III. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 A Saucer Full of Secrets Chapter 2 WWII as an Oil War Chapter 3 The Volga Germans Chapter 4 The Strange World of Miguel Serrano Chapter 5 Secret Cities of the Black Sun Chapter 6 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Chapter 7 A Saucer Called Vril Chapter 8 Dark Side of the Moon Chapter 9 Bibliography and Footnotes A Haunebu II on the ground. A Haunebu II in flight. Note the canon beneath the craft. Chapter 1 A Saucer Full of Secrets Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes. Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis. Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion. Shall we go, you and I while we can— Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds? –Dark Star, Grateful Dead The mystery of the saucers actually began before WWII, but it was during this war, and shortly afterwards that the phenomena of flying saucers, flying boomerangs, flying cigar-shaped objects and more began to flood the skies of the world. What on earth was going on? Were we being invaded from another planet? According to the press and the military, no one knew for sure. Were there really UFOs in the skies? In later years, various skeptics and skeptical societies promoted the view that there weren’t really unexplained flying machines in the sky, it was just the overactive imaginations of people in the years after WWII. Yet, is this really a good explanation for a large part of the UFO phenomena? Certainly not. Evidence does exist that craft from other planets are visiting the Earth. Evidence also exists that the Germans were designing and building disk-type craft during WWII and perhaps before. A Document Dump of German Flying Saucers Since about 1990, researchers in Europe, Australia, America and elsewhere have received documents that show the designs of German flying saucers. A number of curious photos of the craft, in flight and on the ground, have also surfaced. They arrived via a curious document dump involving a German living in London named Ralf Ettl. Ralf Ettl then teamed up with another German named Norbert Jürgen Rathoffer (sometimes spelled Ratthoffer, with a double t, and sometimes with only one f, and sometimes with a hyphen between Jürgen and Rathoffer). The two released a book, circa 1989, titled UFO—Das Dritte Reich schlägt zurück? (UFO—The Third Reich Strikes Back?21). This book published photos and plans of the Haunebu, Vril and Andromeda craft. They went on to author and publish a second book in 1992 entitled Das Vril-Projekt: Der Endkampf um die Erde (The Vril Project: The Final Battle for the Earth22) That same year they also released a one-hour documentary film in German called UFO—Geheimnisse des 3 Reichs (UFO—Secrets of the Third Reich). This film was released in Austria in 1992 but saw limited release. It was sold as a videotape and it seems doubtful that it was ever shown on television in Austria, but may have been sold to television stations in other countries. These Haunebu and Vril documents were published again in 1996 in a German language book called Die Dunkle Seite Des Mondes (The Dark Side of the Moon)23 by “Brad Harris” and published by Pandora Books in Germany. This German language book purported to be the translation of an English book, supposedly published a few years earlier. However, no such English book ever existed and it would seem that “Brad Harris” is just a fake name for some German author, perhaps Norbert Jürgen Rathoffer. The book contained a number of Haunebu and Vril documents and I republished some of these illustrations in the updated version of my book Man-Made UFOs.16 This was a clever way of bringing controversial documents out—in Germany no less—of the Haunebu and Vril craft that had been rumored for decades. Germany has strict laws concerning symbols and speech surrounding the Nazi era and the swastika is banned from public use, including in magazines, books and posters. Photos of the Haunebu or Vril craft do not have swastikas on them allowing them to be viewed in Germany. When they have a symbol on them it is the German Cross. It was later said that the Haunebu and Vril craft had the Black Sun logo on them, instead of the German Cross. Austria does not have the same laws forbidding discussion or images of the Nazis and this is the reason that the film UFO—Geheimnisse des 3. Reichs was released in Austria and not Germany. This movie can be found on the IMDB website where we learn that the English language version, called UFO Secrets of the Third Reich, was released in Austria in 1998. The brief description says, “What did the Germans and Hitler know about the universe and UFOs? This documentary unravels some of the mysterious knowledge that was present during the Third Reich.” We are told the two writers are Jürgen Rathoffer (screenplay), Ralf Ettl (screenplay). We are also told that the documentary features Ernst Harmannstein, Wolfgang Pampel, Eugen Lardy, and a number of others. So, clearly Norbert Jürgen Rathoffer and Ralf Ettl are behind the release of most of the Haunebu and Vril documents, but are they trustworthy? Who is behind this document dump? An English version of this documentary, released in Australia in 1996, had a narrator at the beginning announce that the material had come from “the Austrian Branch of the Knights Templar.” Some have claimed that the material came from the Austrian branch of the Vril Society. The American with the most knowledge of these documents is Henry Stevens, a Californian researcher who has been studying the field of German flying disks and other secret technology for decades. Stevens has been in contact with several German researchers on this subject and is the author of a number of books, including Hitler’s Flying Saucers34 and Dark Star46. In private correspondence Stevens told me: I was suspicious of the “Ettl Dump” for years. I still am. It is just a little too good. What made me reappraise my position was the late Heiner Gehring who was a straight up, no BS guy. As I mentioned he visited Landig [a former SS officer and author of fictional books on German saucers and secret bases] just before Landig died and was shown Landig’s files. Evidently, there was a lot Landig did not tell us in his novels. Heiner came away talking about the Virl and Haunebu saucers as if they were real. Then there is the field propulsion saucer FBI report (the Gut Alt Glossen Report) in my first book [Hitler’s Flying Saucers] which fits the bill exactly. I do not know that Heiner believed all of the Tempelhofgesellschaft lore about the Haunebus, the mediums, the fight to other worlds, etc. I rather doubt he believed this and I certainly do not believe this. Nevertheless, he reported some of it, probably based on what he found with Landig. Heiner was my source as to the Ettl Dump. He explained it to me. In themselves, Ettl and Rathoffer are not credible sources in my eyes. Rathoffer was a security guard or janitor who claimed membership in this secret society. Ettl was a filmmaker and wannabe big time producer. Let me give you an example. Ettl’s production/movie company filed bankruptcy in Germany. This is a very big deal in Germany. But Ettl still wanted to make money on the films belonging to the company and had the master tapes. He sold the right to copy them to a guy in New Zealand or Australia. I found out about this, realized it is probably illegal but my friend at that time Wolf Leithardt, a German living near me, wanted the rights too. They got together and for $500.00 he bought the rights to UFOs Secrets of the 3rd Reich—but not the exclusive rights. So Ettl was going around the world selling rights to this film that he made but technically was part of a bankruptcy. Add to this Ettl and Rathoffer had some sort of interest in a post-production company in Austria, one which could do digital images.
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